| My great, great, grandparents
are buried here which at one time was their homesite. There are no markers
visible and perhaps there were none. Their names were Weller CHAPMAN and
Mary FISHER.
Weller was born c. 1769 in
New Milford, CT. His father, Shubael Chapman, died before July 1777
while Weller was a young
boy. Weller was named after his mother, Annis Weller. He married
Mary Fisher, daughter of
John Turner Fisher, a Loyalist, and both Weller and John Turner Fisher
eventually petitioned for
and were granted land grants on Grand Manan. I have traced Mary
Fisher's lineage back to
several generations prior to Julius Caesar.
Weller raised eight children
on that Island. He eventually moved to the Chapman place in Dumfries
Parish, now Canterbury Parish,
where he died 17 June 1854. The Carleton Sentinnel had an
obituary on him which I've
copied. Mary died there and was buried there but I do not have any date
on her.
This couple were listed in
the 1821 Census of Grand Manan. They are also listed in the 1851 York
Co. census of Dumfries Parish
where they were living with sons Wolford (Wilfred) and Cyrus. A
couple of the sons, Wilfred
and Israel, married Watson girls why one sees so many of that name
buried there.
I've donated my Chapman Family
History (hardbound) to PANB along with nine other major
libraries, including the
Library of Congress. I've included as much of the Chapmans and related
lines in that work as I
could find (342 pages).
Beau Chapman
10 Apr 2002
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